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Any criticism of ROTJ is nothing more than revisionist garbage. People weren't disappointed by it at the time.
Well there's nothing particularly profound about that. George Lucas sold out / isn't behind the stories so it's all effectively fan fiction now. It can't be anything else.
Apollo's death wouldn't actually have happened in real life.
Ivan Drago was supposedly the World Amateur Champion coming into that fight. But in real life would he have even got that far? His punching power is beyond belief, in fact so far beyond the former world champion that he kills him. What would it have done therefore to all the less capable dudes Drago would have to have fought to even get to that point?
He would have been killing / hospitalizating guys left, right and centre in "real life" so there's no way he even gets to the point of fighting Creed...
Time can do that. I was shocked last week having seen a picture of Sean Connery, now aged 89:-
https://thelifeandtimesofhollywood.com/sean-connery-007-celebrates-his-89th-birthday-with-his-family/
... and then seen him in that League of Extraordinary Gentlemen film on the telly a couple of nights later. 17 years difference but just shows you, Sean was still doing alright until his early 70s.
Time catches up with us all in the end I guess, there's no escaping death.
One! One midi-chlorian...
Two! Two midi-chlorians...
Interesting. But what if it's impossible to break out of the simulation? What if we're all just artificial intelligence, lines of code, "living" in this simulation?
... Actually, wait wasn't trying to do just that the plot of Tron legacy 🙄
No I do not... Why?
Ha ha, I'd love to see Han returning as a force ghost!
I used have a running windup going with this dude on the old imdb boards about how this absolutely should happen given his take on it being ok that Rey didn't have to be related to anyone, that anyone could learn the force - his take was that this the implication from ANH, anyone could become a jedi.
I joked that within that logic that meant that anyone should be able to learn one force technique, i.e. coming back as ghost, if nothing else. And who would be better placed and have more reason to learn this than anyone else? How about a guy married to a force user (who therefore herself would achieve immortality as a ghost), has a son who has the same powers (and therefore also potential immortality) and a brother in law who is the greatest jedi ever to teach him. From that perspective it would be ridiculous if Han didn't learn how to come back as a ghost...
Yeah that backflip thing was just ridiculous.
As was the tie-fighter approaching from miles away practically skimming the ground like that. Made 0% sense.
No, I haven't seen The Departed. I'm sure I will land up giving that a watch some time though. I just remembered the one of other films I have seen him though was Gangs of New York. A bit like The Departed that was one I had in my mind as supposedly being a great film. Boy, was I wrong there! Didn't even make it half way through before I stopped watching, amazingly hammy movie...
But yes Brad Pitt is probably even worse. Weirdly though if you take away his earlier "hits" - Seven, Fight Club - there isn't really much on his résumé that you'd even view as particularly required viewing.
What about someone who posts a comment like yours despite the OP already having stated they've seen other Leonardo DiCrapio films thus invalidating that comment before it's even been written... Should they be taken seriously?
Yes, you absolutely should do that! It's great that you understood and got onboard with the wonderful logic that posting on a very specific board due to the very specific circumstances of certain actors and a director coming together is EXACTLY the same as randomly posting on any board of a certain genre 😂
Good luck with your quest!
You want to know what's the "Ramblings of a lunatic"? I'll tell you. Coming on a thread entitled "I'll never see this - Anyone else the same?" and saying "...go watch it and then come back here and give your opinion". Especially after I've already made one reply saying thanks but I wasn't looking to have my mind changed, I was just genuinely interested if anyone felt the same way about these guys...
Seriously dude that's some special sauce stuff you've written there, it's nuts - you said I came on here without having seen the movie so have no basis to judge / criticize but I haven't criticized it AT ALL since, erm, I haven't seen it! That. Was. The. Point.
Your rant has no place on this thread. It'd be like me going on the Leonardo DiCarpio board, looking up a thread saying "Leo's Great - what do you love him in?" and dumping a reply there saying "I hate Leonardo DiCaprio, all his films are garbage, he can't act". Seriously, what's the point of doing something like that?
Some interesting posts chaps, thanks. Seems like it's a well received film.
However, I didn't make the OP to troll fans of these guys, nor to have my mind changed. I really did just wonder if any other people were like me and just found this kind of thing too weird to even entertain.
I genuinely find Di Crapio being taken as a real, serious actor stunningly bizarre. Admittedly I haven't seen him in a load of things, e.g. haven't seen Django, Revenant, Wolf of Wall St, Gatsby, Aviator... but then the films I have see him in (just out of interest in the premise, in no way specifically for him) like Inception and Shutter Island, well he wasn't so bad as to ruin the films but I would say not entirely convincing as a real man, a guy who could have a family in either.
As for Pitt. Much the same, always just seen him as eye candy for teenage girls so find it bizarre that he grows a pencil moustache, mugs it a bit with Clowney and we're supposed to take him seriously... I suppose the best way to sum up my take on him is that I thought Edward Norton must have been embarrassed to star alongside HIM in Fight Club!
Seems though that I'm very much in a minority here though, shocked that we still have guys that grew up with Tarantino still giving him fawning reverence all these years later...
No. I haven't actually seen Spectre.
Skyfall was the final straw for me as far as Daniel Craig's run goes.
Absolutely not! Here is the actual correct order for anyone who is interested:-
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Goldfinger
Moonraker
The Spy Who Loved Me
You Only Live Twice
The Man with the Golden Gun
Dr No
Octopussy
Die Another Day
Live and Let Die
Thunderball
Tomorrow Never Dies
A View To a Kill
Goldeneye
Diamonds Are Forever
For Your Eyes Only
The Living Daylights
Casino Royale
From Russia With Love
Skyfall
The World is Not Enough
Licence to Kill
Quantum of Solace
As you can see Casino Royale sits very near to the bottom. In fact it's only really the utterly boring ones and the absurd Skyfall which lie below it.
This is the best thing about The Something of Boris by a country mile:-
https://youtu.be/h6CoNUE5Zho
Ha ha, of course!
Well said Sir re Moonraker 👍 Moore Bond unashamedly at it's very best alongside TSWLM continuing on the cinematic Bond vision shaped in the likes of Thunderball and most definitely YOLT.
I feel sorry for the Daniel Craig apologists these days who feel the need to try and put these classic movies down in preference of the bland product we unfortunately have now.